These are all awesome albums, but Transnational is just so, so awesome. It's rare that I'll listen to something and it hooks me right away, that my head is suddenly in the right space and I'm really into the music. This was one of those moments. The whole way through my first listen, I was in music heaven.

Finally, these two came in too late for the list:

Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse

Control Human Delete - The Prime Mover

Given more time, these two might have made it onto the list. I know Sodom is barely hanging in there are 5.